Stream Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers’ New Album ‘Hypnotic Eye’

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers return today with “Hypnotic Eye,” the band’s 13th studio album. Fans of classic Petty take note: The 11 tracks hark back to the group’s early days, paying homage to the sound they cultivated on 1976’s self-titled debut and 1978’s “You’re Gonna Get It.”

“Maybe this album does sound like that,” Petty told Rolling Stone earlier this year about the new material. “But it’s that band 30 years later. We hadn’t made a straight hard-rockin’ record, from beginning to end, in a long time.”

Indeed, the material does have a heavy rock slant to it, but it’s not just riff after riff. Petty and crew play with jazzy arrangements on “Full Grown Boy” and tackle a more traditional blues-rock arrangement on “Power Drunk.” Other highlights include the mid-tempo, airy “Sins of My Youth” and “Fault Lines,” a bass driven tune that finds Petty musing on a few of the cracks in his past and confronting aging.

The Heartbreakers’ last album, 2010’s “Mojo,” debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200, selling 125,000 in its first week, according to Billboard.

Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers kick off a two-month long arena tour next week, starting August 3 at San Diego’s Viejas Arena and running coast to coast through October 10.

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